I am the miserable-evil-tyrant-owner of
JavaRanch.
I started this joint because I had the need to express my opinions on a
java style guide. Later, I added some
programming pearls and some
java forums.
Just a wacky thing. Bla bla bla about Java, and lots of folks showed up!
More recently, I've gone on a tirade about unit testing and wrote
Evil Unit Testing with an emphasis on the importance of vocabulary and how too much functional testing can lead to a brittle project.
I think that design patterns have taken a bad turn probably due to their own popularity. So I wrote a brief bit called
Evil Design Patterns.
When describing diagnostics, I needed to express it in one, big gob, so I wrote
Better Enterprise/Network Monitoring with Component Diagnostics.
I'm nuts about
permaculture (check out my
permaculture forums). In the early 90's I became obsessed with gardening and all forms of horticulture. In 1994 I gave a presentation on
lawn care and wrote some blurb for the occasion. When the web rolled around in 1995, I copied the blurb into some rough HTML and stuck it on the web. I called it
organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy. It gets heaps of traffic - probably because it's so old.
Back in the 80's some college professor made me write in a journal and he let me use my newfangled computer. I filled out a few pages waxing on about how my family made
sourdough pancakes. A couple of years ago I found it and mashed that into html too.
More recently I wrote about meeting my hero
Sepp Holzer and pushed a bunch of stuff about
rocket stove mass heaters out to the mighty youtube.
Lately I've been crusading the use of
cast iron and reducing the panic surrounding
flea control.
